Sunday 28 September 2008

Light Touch For Them, Heavy Hand For The Rest Of Us

While Gordon Brown backtracks furiously on his 'light touch' approach to the finance system, the rest of us continue to receive the heavy hand of his Stalinist practices when it comes to the ID card, National Register project.

The writer Cory Doctorow (Canadian-born therefore a Commonwealth citizen, UK resident, married to a British citizen and now father of a British child) is one of the first Johnny Foreigners to have to carry an ID card. Read his own response here.

Foreigners first, then airport workers and teachers, then students, then the rest of us.

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